The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-25
Directing to a Department Rule.
The Quarrel Between Secretary
Bayard and the Attorney General.
Commissioner Sparks is Disgruntled
and May Resign His Office.
The New York Suns Sketch of Rod
erick Random Buffers Career.
A Young South Carolinian's Good Work
In Checking the Fee-Grabbers-The
Reform He Has Instituted In the
Comptroller's once.

BUREAU OF THE MEMrms APPEAL, No.
5l5 FOURTEENTH STREET, WASHINGTON,
Oct. 24.-Judge Hammond, of Memphis,
about whom there appeared some time ago
n paragraph in the newspapers TO the ef-
feet that he required the United States 70
provide hix With drinks and bootshines
while he wss away from home, is still at
loggerheads with the treasury department
OH the same subject. He persists in in
eluding in his accounts such items as the
afore mentioned, and he is much surprised
fhat there should be any hesitancy in pay
ing them. lie says that "a gentleman OF
genteel habits should not be required 10
state publicly" what all his little expenses
are in detail, but since the department
requires such detailed statement he
includes il, at the same time noting his
protest. On the other hand, the depart
ment holds that a gentleman OF gentcel
habits ought rather TO put his hand in his
own pocket TO pay for such things as
shaves, drinks and shines, than TO expect
the government TO furnish them, there
being question as to whether such ex-
penditures are absolutely necessary to the
holding Of a judicial court. The Judge
says that when he is at home his wife pre-
pares his toddy for him, but while lac is
away on official business he is obliged TO
buy his drink, and II being an expense en-
tailed on account OF official business IL
should he allowed as such. Both sides are
obstinate and at present there are no signs
Of either surrendering.
THE BAYARD-GARLASD QUARREL.
II il thought here that ny soon M the
President returns he will be called upon 10
settle very unpleasant controversy be-
tween the Secretary OF State and the At
torncy-General. II will be remembered
that the Alaska fur seal company holds n
lease Of the seal islands Of Alaska from the
United States through the treasury depart
ment. The company claims that this lease
gives il absolute control over all the seal
fisheries in Behring sca. The treasury
department has taken the view Of the case
held by the company, while British, as well
as New England, sealers and whalers, claim
that the United States has no jurisdiction
beyond three miles from shore. Relieving
that they had right 10 do 20, shippers Of
whalcH and sealeH have steered their
craft into the forbidden waters, and ms a
consequence, their vessels have been
seized by the United States revenue cut
tens. Mr.. Bayard, in his correspondence
with the British authorities, has disputed
the claim Of Canada TO jurisdiction over
the waters Of the gulf Of -. Lawrence and
Of the ocean adjoining outside the three
mile limit. To be consistent, therefore, lac
was compelled 10 differ with the treasury
department, and lac holds that the claim
OF the United States 90 jurisdiction over
Behring sea Ii untenablc. In brief on
The subject, the Attorney General has seen
III 20 oppose the position Of the Secretary
OF State, and the latter finds himself In a
very unpleasant position in consequence.
Mr.. Bayard's friends assert that he
will resign his portfolio unless
he Is sustained by the President.
In consequence, Il is generally be.
lieyed here that either Mr.. Garland or Mr..
Bayard will shortly retire from the Cabinet.
In this connection IL is stated, but the ~.
NOR cannot be traced 10 any authentic
source, that Mr.. Garland is 10 be rendered
the mission 10 Mexico, made vacant by the
death OF Judge Manning last week.
SPARKS TO RESIGN.
II Is thought in the interior department
circles that Commissioner Sparks will also
tender his resignation. The commissioner
sometime ago decided that railroad In
Wisconsin was not entitled 10 indemnity
for the lands within its grants which were
found 20 be within Indian reservations.
The Secretary Of the Interior, In reviewing
his decision, reversed Mr. Sparks, and
that gentleman a. in consequence, very
much put out. lie will demand that the
Secretary re-exaIninc the merits Of the
case, and II he Is not sustained, he will ~
tire from the position which has caused
him no many sleeples nights.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY.
Ex-senator Dorsey Is going 10 spend III,
winter on his ranch In New Mexico. III,
expects 20 start this week. A party %
Jolly good fellows are going 20 visit hin
there about Christmas time, and the Ar
kansas statesman has promised n enter
tain them In the generous style for which
he was famous In the days Of his power n
the national capital. The ex-senator
knows the west thoroughly, and agree
with Chaunccy NJ. Depcw in saying thai
land values out there are prcpostcrousll
hign. IN hhil4h WY bAlu me- NHfl
have cut up into town lots an area capable
Of holding 100000 people, and III,
property is selling on the basi
Of that many inhabitants. loI
can get land cheaper alon
broadway, New York, than on the princi
pal streets In Kansas City. Wichita
Omaha, Springfield, Mo-, and Minneapoli
arr IN much the same fix, and there mus
be a reaction. When the drop comes
though. II won't affect the Legitimate trad
al the country, az some iinancios seem
think. II IL true that heavy real estate dc
clines prccipitated the panics OF 1887 an
1857. but the only similarity between th
conditions then and now Is the figure Of
nt the close Of all three yean.
RoDERicK RANDOM BUTLER.
The New York Sun says "Rodcrick !
Butler, congressman from the First distri'
OF Tennessee, was elected last fall on N
Republican ticket m successor 10 a. i
Pcttibone, also Republican. THIS yea
at the outset Of the contest in his stat
Butler espoused the cause OF prohibition
Later In the campaign he changed his a
titude on the question, and y Is charge
Inv the prohibitionists that he was pal
5000 for this action. llo has great i
fiuence with the people In his mounlal
district, and carried q great many vote